lake herring

Questions about lake herring

What does lake herring mean?

lake herring means "cold-water fish caught in Lake Superior and northward". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for lake herring?

Close synonyms include cisco, cisco, Coregonus artedi. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lake herring a common word?

lake herring is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.